Mr C. must make you the Report of Lecture 3d;1 for this one “tacked on” to The Sublime rather than to The Ridiculous, and my memory (more shame to me!) is retentive of only the Ridiculous in human speech. He (my Husband) likened the former
Lecture to the Tune of ‘Over the Water to Charlie,’2 as he had once heard it played on an indifferent fiddle; the last was more in the style of ‘With one consent let all the Earth’ played on a (barrel-)organ;3 or of that mystical Fantasia on the violincello with which Albert in the last chapter of Consuelo thrills the two Artist-souls who had come from remote lands and up a steep mountain to ask him for ‘The Solution.’4 The audience were quite charmed; so beautiful it all sounded, so profound, and lofty, and prophetic! but ask any one of them, or the man himself, what that tongue-sonate ‘wished of you,’ and the answer could only be; “Dont know the least in the world; further than, that you should “prick the slumberous side
of the Giant who dwells in the unseen—the Angel who stood by God in the day of Creation—and stimulate Him (the Giant—the Angel) into all-searching, all-pervading activity,” said Giant or Angel having been precised as “The Instinct within us—that first Look of the Soul into every object.” By all which, if he meant to say in plain English, that it would be well we should give more heed to our instincts, I, for one, whatever the fish or flower may do, most cordially “think along with him.” On the whole we shall none of us be wiser for the Lecture I fear, but they
amuse, and can do no possible harm— “a song of triumph”—over no victory—voila tout [that is all]!

The new-charmed Duchess has not come again—has found, it would seem, something more unintelligible for her elsewhere.5 Lady Byron sat in her place, pale and transparent as a wax candle6 Ah!— I recollected how I once walked half an hour, to and fro, in the rain, before an Edinr Book-shop; to catch sacred glimpses of—that woman's skirts! and I sighed, that “the rude hand of Time” should have so effectually “swept the down” (as a Lady once said to me) “from the cheek of my beautiful enthusiasm.”7

Miss Wynn told us in returning from the Lecture that Lord Sligo in his capacity of Special Constable had “seized two cart-loads
of arms”—probably some old brace of pistols—and that the Rising was looked for today instead of tomorrow—but I hear only church-bells, no Tocsin8— She told us too, what you have perhaps heard, that a gentleman (?) went up to Milnes in the House of Commons, and said he
understood that he (Milnes) now sent his washing to Mrs Cuffy;9 but that there was so little of it, and what was, so thoroughly soiled, that poor Mrs Cuffy was frantic. And Milnes had “taken this joke very much to heart.” If I were Milnes, I would call out a few of these
Jokers and shoot one, at least, dead—for the example's sake.

Mrs Philips, Mrs Buller's niece, was here this morning and told me that Lady Lewis was going to Richmond tomorrow to try to dissuade Mrs Buller from her scheme of “building a small house in Kensal Green”—“something in the form of a Temple over Mr Bullers grave—which they may retire to when they like—”10 Dear! dear! She must not be suffered to do that!

Emerson is dining here today and a Welshman whom Mr C once staid three weeks with,11 and my Brother in law—and they are now looking for tea I suppose—the dinner went off charmingly—well-cooked and well-waited—and what is of more enduring interest to my household good my maid12 has persuaded me that her two ‘accidents’ really were accidental, and stays under the condition that I am to regulate her intercourse with her Lover according to my own ideas of propriety.

JWC-Lady A [LA], [11 June]. MS: Marquess of Northampton. Hitherto unpbd. Dated by Emerson's third lecture, 10 June, in the series of six “On the Mind and Manners of the Nineteenth Century” at the Literary and Scientific Inst., 17 Edwards
St., Portman Sq., 6–17 June. Lady Harriet was now Lady Ashburton. Emerson reports her presence in his audience (Rusk 4:84).

1. “Tendencies and Duties of Men of Thought,” in which Emerson says TC took “a lively interest.” Further, “Carlyle too makes
loud Scottish Covenanter gruntings of laudation, or, at least, of consideration, when any thing strikes him, to the edifying
of the attentive vicinity” (Rusk 4:84, 85).

2. The second lecture, 8 June, was “Relation of Intellect to Natural Science.” The tune is a setting of the Jacobite lyric; both are given in James Hogg's
Jacobite Relics of Scotland, second ser. (Edinburgh, 1821).

4. Not in Sand's Consuelo (1843) but its sequel, La Comtesse de Rudolstadt (1844), ch. 41, the last chapter, which begins with the magical sound of “the harmonica, that recently invented instrument.”

5. Probably Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana (1806–68; ODNB), duchess of Sutherland, though Emerson reported her present only at subsequent lectures (Rusk 4:84, 85); he was to dine
with her, 26 June (Rusk 4:86).

6. Anne Isabella, b. Milbanke (1792–1860), Lady Byron, the poet's widow. She had attended Emerson's lecture of 8 June, when Bancroft introduced them (Rusk 4:81); they were to meet her again at Anna Jameson's (Rusk 4:86).

8. In England, where thousands of special constables were resworn, 10 June, and strong forces of police suppressed and dispersed numerous Chartist meetings planned for Whit Monday, 12 June. The meetings were in sympathy with unrest in Ireland after Mitchel's trial, where a new Irish League was forming uniting
the Confederation and the old O'Connellite Repeal Assoc. George John Browne (1820–96), 3d marquess of Sligo.

9. Referring to William Cuffey (Cuffay), prominent Chartist, member of the Convention (April 1848), one of several armed Chartists to be arrested, 16 Aug., tried for inciting rebellion and fire-raising, 26 Sept., and sentenced to life transportation; see Examiner, 30 Sept. and 7 Oct. Mrs. Cuffey was mentioned in the evidence. Milnes's sympathy for the new French revolution was allied to the fact that he
had also been “all for the Charter,” both positions mocked by his fellow M.P.s (Pope-Hennessy, Monckton Milnes, the Years of Promise 1809–1815, 281). Emerson thought Milnes “a little careless & sloven in his dress” (Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 10:530).

10. Catherine Aurora ("Kitty") Phillips, b. Kirkpatrick (1802–89), Isabella Buller's paternal cousin; see TC to JCE, 4 Oct. 1824. Clementina, b. Kirkpatrick, Lady Louis, Isabella Buller's elder sister; see TC to JCE, 12 Jan. 1822, and TC to JAC, 18 Sept. 1830. Kensal Green Cemetery, in London; see TC to JAC, 2 Dec. 1836. Amalie Bölte wrote to Varnhagen, 14 Dec. 1847, sending him JWC's letter to her of 23 Dec. 1843 (see JWC to AB, 23 Dec. 1843) and “a small note of Mrs Phillips, Carlyle's first love, if one can call it a love. She is … daughter of an Indian princess,
has a coffee brown complexion, and auburn hair. He didn't know anything about the skin of a woman in those days. She is very
friendly, gentle and good. Certainly that would have suited him well, it would have calmed him down. … She has now married
a handsome but dim-witted man.” She was still “greatly interested” in TC and talked to Bölte for hours about him, “whereby
I learn many a thing about his past life and being which would otherwise have remained secret to me. He never mentioned love
to her. I also doubt whether he ever felt anything like that.” She would have liked to help him, but “it is the eternal curse
of women that they cannot do anything independently” (Böltes Briefe 51, trans.).